Who We Are

Our Origin

In 2018, Amazon had no comprehensive plan to address the climate crisis; it didn’t even release carbon footprint data. So a group of Amazon tech workers came together and decided to change that. 

We first tried to use our power as shareholders to file a resolution as a group, asking for Amazon to release a climate plan. We wrote and circulated an open letter, gathering over 8,700 worker signatures. Amazon responded with its first public climate commitment with a date, called Shipment Zero, and asked us to withdraw our resolution. Instead, we packed the annual shareholder meeting with concerned employees. Amazon’s Board led the charge in voting down our resolution, so we decided to organize our own walkout as part of the 2019 Global Climate Strike, gathering over 1,700 pledges from employees around the world to join us in walking out. 

The night before our walkout, Amazon finally did what its workers had been demanding: Jeff Bezos held a surprise press conference and announced the Climate Pledge. The Climate Pledge commits Amazon, and any company who signs it, to net-zero emissions across all its operations by 2040. Amazon also reaffirmed its Shipment Zero goal (a commitment it would later cancel), and announced electric vehicle and reforestation initiatives. And it released its carbon footprint data for the first time, committing to report carbon emissions regularly.

But despite releasing a glowing sustainability report every year since then, Amazon is failing to meet its goals. So now it’s time for us, Amazon workers who care about the future of the planet, to step in and make sure the company gets back on the right track.